Honoring moms and gardening go together like peas and carrots, peanut butter and jelly and, of course, rock ‘n’ roll. Let the celebration begin this weekend, hug your mom, let her know she’s the best, and after that enjoy a plant outing together.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIt’s OK to be a first-timer at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, or a symphony newbie at Boettcher Concert Hall. It’s OK to get lost while looking for the bathroom, or feel intimidated by the snaking bar lines.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Drag queen and social media personality Pattie Gonia is known for exploring the great outdoors while sporting 6-inch heels, and soon she will be trekking Colorado trails and hosting dance parties along the way.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareMontreal’s Arcade Fire will play its only North American show of 2024 at Red Rock Amphitheatre to mark the 20th anniversary of landmark album “Funeral.”
The LP, which launched the band’s influential sing-along anthems in the early 2000s, was released on Sept.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Entertainment company Meow Wolf on Friday announced a sixth location for its surreal art installations, naming Los Angeles as the latest to join Denver, Las Vegas and others.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareDenver Water posted a Backstreet Boys parody bursting with summer watering tips on Monday.
The video, titled “Splashstreet Boys — I water that way,” is a twist on the iconic Backstreet Boys song “I want it that way,” featuring choregraphed dance sequences, popped collars and cinematic shots of sprinkles.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Randi Kleiner felt like an 8-year-old at her birthday party as she fretted inside the Sie FilmCenter. It was 2015, the opening year of the SeriesFest TV festival and, as with a birthday party, there was no guarantee people were going to show up.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Billie Eilish has already had a top-tier year, winning awards at both the Grammys and the Oscars for her song “What Was I Made For?” featured in the “Barbie” movie.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Denver has always been happy to flaunt its most visible artistic assets, given that they’ve helped reshape the city into a walkable playground of sculptures, murals and interactive installations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareEditor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
In playwright David Myers’ “237 Virginia Avenue,” a father and son play a not-always friendly, increasingly freighted game of Monopoly. When Rex asks son Eric, an adjunct professor, what he’s at work on, Eric says he’s writing about “Debt.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
The anatomy of a green room is deceptively simple: couches, tables, mirrors, mini-fridges, and other basic items are available to performers as they wait backstage, do interviews, receive guests and party.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
“Pay Dirt,” by Sara Paretsky (Wiliam Morrow)
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThe Denver Center is a-humming.
In the theater company’s largest house, Emma Woodhouse — to her own gentle comeuppance — is winking her way through Kate Hamill’s delightful adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma.” (See if before it closes Sunday.) Downstairs in the Singleton Theatre, things are positively loopy.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
City Park Farmers Market
Sunny weather and farmers markets are the perfect pairing for a summer afternoon. One of the largest in Denver is the City Park Farmers Market, which opens for the season on May 4.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
When interactive entertainment company Meow Wolf announced this month that it would lay off 165 employees, including 50 in Denver, many of those affected had already learned about it through social media.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareAdventurous travelers seeking beauty and budget thrills should look no further than Guatemala: a friendly country that remains largely unexplored by many Americans, but can be reached in as little as six hours from Denver.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But with the Craft Brewers Conference underway there, the results of the event’s hallmark competition, the World Beer Cup, were bound to get out.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn 1999, the U.S. women’s soccer team captivated sports fans across the globe when it won the World Cup and became the first team in the female league to do so on home soil.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Considering that 2017’s “War for the Planet of the Apes” was a highly satisfying conclusion to the reboot trilogy of “Planet of the Apes” films, the makers of the new movie “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” were wise to set it in the same universe but far in the future.
More | Talk | Read It Later | SharePinkies out, wine lovers
Saturday. A festival that offers sips, swills and, err, spits? Wine not?
The historic 88 Drive-in Theatre in Commerce City will reopen this weekend despite owners saying it would close for good in 2023.
The 48-year-old drive-in — the last of its kind in the metro area — posted on Facebook on May 4 that it would return on Friday, May 10, for the summer season with the double-feature of “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” and “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.”
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Cinco de Mayo at Civic Center
Saturday-Sunday. As the unofficial kickoff of summer events at downtown’s sprawling Civic Center, Cinco de Mayo Denver returns May 4-5, with a festival that celebrates the historic Mexican holiday as well as Colorado’s centuries-old Latino culture.
So Many Roads Brewery is closed permanently following the arrest of co-founder Jay Bianchi on suspicion of sexual assault, including an allegation of assault at the brewery earlier this month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareThere is something invigorating about seeing the exhibitions of student work that college art galleries present at this time of year. The air is full of optimism, even though all that eager talent that is about to graduate faces an uncertain career path.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
Film on the Rocks will screen “The Matrix,” “The Wizard of Oz” and other fantastical titles as part of its 25th anniversary year at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
Oh, and “Shrek.”
Denver’s ascendant Asian food scene
Sunday-May 4. Many of the metro area’s best new restaurants offer creative takes on traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and other diverse Asian cuisines, which makes the 2nd annual Mile High Asian Food Week an idea worth bringing back.
I’ve completed 17 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles in the past 14 weeks. Mostly by myself.
Over that same time, I also cut way back on booze, halved my phone screen time (okay, it’s maybe 30% less), and gone on a dozen hikes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share